svn over HTTP proxy

Question

Hi all.
I'm on laptop (Ubuntu) with a network that use HTTP proxy (only http connections allowed).
When I use svn up for url like 'http://.....' everything is cool (google chrome repository works perfect), but right now I need to svn up from server with 'svn://....' and I see connection refused.
I've set proxy configuration in /etc/subversion/servers but it doesn't help.
Anyone have opinion/solution?
Thanks.
Anton.

Answer 1

when you use the svn:// URI it uses port 3690 and probably won't use http proxy

Answer 2

svn:// doesn't talk http, therefor there's nothing a http proxy could do.

Any reason why http doesn't work? Have you considered https? If you really need it, you probably have to have port 3690 opened in your firewall.

Answer 3

If you can get SSH to it you can an SSH Port-forwarded SVN server.

Use SSHs -L ( or -R , i forget, it always confuses me ) to make an ssh tunnel so that

127.0.0.1:3690 is really connecting to remote:3690 over the ssh tunnel, and then you can use it via

svn co svn://127.0.0.1/....

Answer 4

@ Cetra, yes :)
@ Olaf, It's not my server, I can't control it, just need to tunnel somehow and can't find solution over googling yet.

Answer 5

In /etc/subversion/servers you are setting http-proxy-host, which has nothing to do with svn:// which connects to a different server usually running on port 3690 started by svnserve command.

If you have access to the server, you can setup svn+ssh:// as explained here.

Update: You could also try using connect-tunnel, which uses your HTTPS proxy server to tunnel connections:

connect-tunnel -P proxy.company.com:8080 -T 10234:svn.example.com:3690

Then you would use

svn checkout svn://localhost:10234/path/to/trunk

Answer 6

If you're using the standard SVN installation the svn:// connection will work on tcpip port 3690 and so it's basically impossible to connect unless you change your network configuration (you said only Http traffic is allowed) or you install the http module and Apache on the server hosting your SVN server.

Answer 7

Okay, this topic is somewhat outdated, but as I found it on google and have a solution this might be interesting for someone:

Basically (of course) this is not possible on every http proxy but works on proxies allowing http connect on port 3690. This method is used by http proxies on port 443 to provide a way for secure https connections. If your administrator configures the proxy to open port 3690 for http connect you can setup your local machine to establish a tunnel through the proxy.

I just was in the need to check out some files from svn.openwrt.org within our companies network. An easy solution to create a tunnel is adding the following line to your /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 svn.openwrt.org

Afterwards, you can use socat to create a tcp tunnel to a local port:

while true; do socat tcp-listen:3690 proxy:proxy.at.your.company:svn.openwrt.org:3690; done

You should execute the command as root. It opens the local port 3690 and on connection creates a tunnel to svn.openwrt.org on the same port.

Just replace the port and server addresses on your own needs.